Luggage carrier



Aug. 31, 1937. B. PLATT ET AL 2,091,650

LUGGAGE CARRIER Filed May 6, 1936 INVENTORS ATTORNEYS Patented Aug. 31 1937 UNITED STATES earnest orricn 1 Claim.

Our invention relates to improvements in luggage carriers, with particular reference to the construction of the socalled frames and the connection of the body portions therewith.

Objects of our invention are to provide means whereby the entire top surface of the bag may occupy a single horizontal plane, with the exposed margins of the jaw frames and their coverings butted; to provide improved jaw frames having overlapping inner portions and butted outer portions; to provide means whereby Gladstone bags can be constructed in the form of a true rectangular box, with no projections other than the trim and the handles; to provide means whereby locking bolts and keepers may be located in housings of substantially equal size and of minimum height, secured to the respective jaws and adequately supported for uniform registry of the locking bolt with the slot in the bolt receiving housing; and to provide improved means for connecting the body covering with the jaws in such a manner that the jaws of the body covering may be butted without overlap, with the top surfaces of the body covering and jaw coverings in the same plane.

In the drawing:

Figure l is a perspective view of a Gladstone bag embodying my invention.

Figure '2 is a sectional view of the jaws drawn to line 22 of Figure 1, and showing fragments of the body.

Figure 3 is a view showing a modification of the left hand jaw shown in Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a similar view showing a further modification.

As shown in Figure 1, the Gladstone bag embodying our inventionhas the general form of a plain rectangular box having body members it and l i provided with rounded upper corners and devoid of overlapping members, or projections other than corner re-enforcements l2, handles it, and the usual trim, including the doweling members It and Il.

The frame jaws may be hinged together at the bottom as indicated at 20. As shown in Figure 2, one of the jaws, i. e., the left hand jaw, comprises a U-shaped bar of angle iron form having the middle portion IS in a substantially horizontal plane when the bag is upright, and an inwardly projecting flange I9 associated with a similar bar faced in the opposite direction. Its middle portion has a horizontal flange 2! inset from the flange l8 and an inturned flange 22 of sufllciently less width than the flange I!) to allow the inner margins of the flanges l9 and 22 to coincide.

The inturned flanges l9 and 22 .are connected with each other in any suitable manner, rivets being indicated at 23, although it is not material whether these flanges are riveted, welded, or otherwise connected.

The intermediate top portion of the right hand jaw has a horizontal flange 24 projecting in the same direction as the flange l8 and in substantially the same plane. The outer side of this jaw has an inturned flange 25, and at the ends of the bag the jaw is extended downwardly, and these vertical portions are hinged at 2d to the vertical portions of the first mentioned jaw as above explained.

Suitable coverings, preferably composed of leather strips'Zl and 28, are folded about the respective jaws, and their side margins are lapped together and extended in the form of connecting 20 flaps or marginal strips til to which the relatively thick leather covering 3! of the bag body may be stitched, as indicated at 32, with the margins of the bag covering 3! butted against the exposed upper portions of the cover and the margflrwsftm flanges l8 and 24.

.ihe'walls of the body,--particularly the vertical side walls and the bottom, are preferably provided with stiffening material 35 as indicated in Figure 1, whereby the shape of the bag may be 30 maintained and the top portion of the covering held to substantially the same plane as that occupied by the exposed portions of the jaw coverlugs 21 and 28.

The locking bolt 3'! may reciprocate in a hori- 35 zontal plane in close proximity to but above the top of the bag, and aside from rivets or equivalent fastenings no part of the trim need extend through the jaw flanges. Accurate positioning of the jaws makes this possible since precise reg- 4 istry for counterpart portions of the trim is maintained.

In Figure 3, the jaw members lBa, l9a, Zla, and 22a are formed of a single strip of metal folded as illustrated. In Figure 4 this jaw is 45 formed in two parts in general correspondence to the illustration in Figures 1 and 2, but the flange l9b is of greater width and folded about the flange 22b. The flanges I81) and 21b occupy" the same relation to each other as the corresponding flanges in the other views.

We claim:

A luggage carrier comprising the combination of non-metallic container members, marginally provided with metallic hinged jaws of angle iron tended in superposed contacting relation beyond the top flange and substantially in the plane of its under surface and secured to the inner face of its respective container member to support the latter in end to end relation to its associated top 5 flange. 7

PAUL PLATT. BENJAMIN PLA'I'I. 

